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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,198, dated November 5, 1889. Application filed May 29,1889. Mal No. 312,514. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. EIGHMIE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in shirts; and it has for its object to provide a facing-strip for the back opening of the shirt, which will also serve as a stay for the lower end of said opening, the strip and stay being formed integral from a single piece of goods.

The invention will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings, and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan View of the facing-strip and stay before folding. Fig. 2 is a like View of the same when folded. Fig. 3 shows the strip and stay as secured to a shirt.

In the drawings, A represents the facingstrip, and B the stay, both formed integral from a piece of muslin. The facing-strip portion is rectangularin shape and of a length to reach to about the lower end of the back opening. A slit 1 is cut in one edge and a notch 2 in the opposite edge of the cloth, in order that the edges of the strip may be turned under on the dotted lines 1 1 and 2 2, for an obvious purpose. The stay portion 13 is cut 011 a line with one edge of the facingstrip down to the point 3, where it is notched, as seen, and with the opposite edge of the strip down to the point 4. The lower end of the stay is cut diagonal in a downward direction from the point 4 to the extreme lower point 5, and thence diagonally upward to the point 3.

In attaching this combined facing-strip and stay to the shirt the edges of the strip are turned under, as above stated. The edges of the stay are likewise turned in an opposite direction on the dotted 1ines2 4, 4 5, and 5 3, for a similar purpose. The stay is then bent over upon itself on the dotted line 2 3, so that when folded its upper edge will lie at right angles to the facing-strip, as seen in Fig. 2. The device is then ready for attachment to the shirt, on which it is placed in the manner shown in Fig. 3. The slit 1 and notch 2 not only serve to permit the raw edges of the cloth to be turned under, but they also serve as guides to the operative in so folding the stay as to have its upper edge in a perfectly. straight line.

It will be understood that as the grain of the cloth in the stay is crosswise of the lower end of the back opening, and as the stay is of double thickness, it will be impossible under ordinary usage to tear the shirt down the opening.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A shirt provided with a facing-strip A and a stay B, of equal width, for the back opening, consisting of a single piece of fabric slitted, as at 1, and notched, as at 3, in one edge, notched, as at 2, in the opposite edge, and out on diagonal lines at its lower end, whereby the edges of the strip and stay may be turned for hemming and a guide is formed by which to fold the stay, the stay being folded back upon itself and secured to the shirt across the lower end of the opening at a right angle to the facing-strip, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE D. EIGHMIE.

Witnesses:

WM. HUNTER MYERs, G. W. BALLOCH. 

